Research Article

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Thinness among Adolescent Students in Finote Selam Town, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 2

Nutrition and health-related characteristics of school adolescents at Finote Selam Town, Ethiopia, 2018.

VariablesFrequencyPercentage

Number of meals eaten per day
Two times11930.0
Three times and above27870.0

Illness reported in the last one month
Yes13133.0
No26667.0

Availability of home garden
Yes28872.5
No10927.5

Eating vegetables at least once per day
Yes18346.1
No21453.9

Eating fruits at least once per day
Yes20451.4
No19348.6

Eating farm animal products at least once per week
Yes11529.0
No28271.0

Nutrition and health information
Yes4711.8
No35088.2